Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names of all state wild flowers. The Boston Chamber of Commerce has received postcards with only the word "Information" on them. The young writers want samples of soil and biographies of the Founding Fathers. The Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry gets 5,000 letters a month. The Douglas Aircraft Co. in Los Angeles has received as many as 686 in a week...
Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Leslie Clark Stevens, U.S.N., 61, onetime (1947-49) U.S. naval attache in Moscow, earlier (1937-44) in charge of Bureau of Aeronautics development of World War II naval aircraft; of a heart attack; in Sanford, Fla. Admiral Stevens spoke Russian fluently, understood Russia's history and literature, grew to like the Russian people as much as he disliked their government, wrote a thoughtful, objective book (Russian Assignment) on his experiences. Russophile Stevens' prediction: "As surely as light follows darkness, the problems created in a decent people by the forced maintenance of power will somehow...
...million developing and testing the T 44 and F.N.), a new-type rifle appeared on the Pentagon's horizon that gave promise of being superior to either. It was developed (at no cost to the taxpayer) in a Los Angeles machine shop by George Sullivan. 46, a Lockheed Aircraft Corp. patent attorney and engineer, whose hobby is guns. After Sullivan had produced a successful experimental model, he was taken under the wing of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. and turned out 30 copies of a highly efficient, 2¼-lb., unsinkable, survival-kit, .22-cal. rifle...
...Druggists were bombarded with a publicity barrage based on a report in Industrial Medicine & Surgery that remedies containing bioflavonoids, e.g., vitamin-like citrus extracts, were 74% effective against common colds among McDonnell Aircraft Corp. employees. But simultaneously came two reports in the A.M.A. Journal showing bioflavonoids useless against colds in Dartmouth College students and Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. workers. Warned the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Dr. Albert H. Holland Jr.: "A cold is still a cold, and facts are facts...
...unsheltered antenna would not be exposed to wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft pass over or near it. Its quiet inhabitants occupied themselves raising livestock and dairying. All in all, the astronomers decided, there was no other place in the East where the sounds of the universe would come through quite so clearly...